Mounting for precious stones.



Patented Sept 22, 1908.

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with equally good results WILLIAM RITCHIE ELLIOT, OF NEW YORK, N. Y.

MOUNTING FOR PRECIOUS STONES.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented Sept. 22, 1908.

I Application filed December 9, 1907. Serial No. 405,802.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, WILLIAM RITCHIE ELLIOT, a citizen of the UnitedStates, and a resident of the city of New York, borough of Manhattan, inthe county and State of New York, have invented anew and usefulImprovement in Mountings for Precious Stones, of which the following isa full, clear, and exact description.

The invention relates to mountings for precious stones, which whileparticularly adapted to finger rings, may be also applied to scarf pinsor bands, studs, or cu'fi buttons.

The purpose of the invention is to provide a mount for precious stones,that will admit of different characters of stones being quickly andconveniently applied to a mount or removed therefrom by the user of thejewel, and further to provide a means for locking the set stone in saidmount in such manner that it will remain in place until purposelyremoved.

It is a further purpose of the invention to so construct a finger ringor scarf pin having the improved mount applied, that said article willbe in two hinged sections locked together by the act of applying a stonethereto, enabling a ring to be fitted to the finger a point below theknuckle over which it could not otherwise be passed.

The invention consists in the novel con struction and combination of theseveral parts as will be hereinafter fully set forth and pointed out inthe claims.

Reference is to be had to the accompanying drawings forming a part ofthis specification, in which similar characters of reference indicatecorresponding parts in all the ures.

Figure 1 is a sectional side elevation of a finger ring provided withthe improved mount, and having a set stone locked thereto Fig. 2 is asection taken practically on the line 22 of Fig. 1,- Figs. 3 and 4 aresectional side elevations of rings illustrating slight modifications inthe construction of the mounting, and Fig. 5 is a sectional sideelevation of the body of the ring in open position, and a side elevationof the setting removed therefrom. Fig. 6 is a plan view of the body ofthe ring in closed position, the setting being removed.

The device is shown in the drawings in the form of a ring constructed intwo sections A and A, having a pivotal connection 10 at one of theirends and at their opposite or free ends they are adapted to be broughtin contact. The said free end of one of the sections is provided withone or more projections 11 that enter corresponding recesses 11 in thecorresponding end of the opposing section, as is shown in Figs. 1, 3,and 4. At the free ends of the sections A and A, segmental channels 12are formed, adapted to register when the free ends of the sections A andA are brought together to form a continuous circular channel, andcorresponding walls of the said channels are provided with threads 13.

In the form of the device illustrated in Fig. 1, a recess 14 isprovided, around which the aforesaid channels 12 extend, and this recess14 is adapted to receive the lower or pointed portion of a stone 15,which stone is mounted in a suitable annular setting 16 adapted to fitin the registering channels 12, and the said setting 16 is provided witha threaded surface that engages the threaded wall 13 of the recesses 12,so that when the setting 16 is screwed to place in the registeringrecesses 12, the free ends of the mount are drawn together and are heldin close engagement.

The setting 16 is provided with an inclined recess 17 in its lower edgeat one side, as is best shown in Fig. 2, and this recess 17 is adaptedto receive the free end of a latch 18, the opposite end of the saidlatch being secured in the material of one of the sections A or A, andthe free end of the said latch 18 is adapted for movement in a suitablechamber 18*, made in the section of the device carrying the said latch,as is particularly shown in Fig. 1, and the said latch 18 is operatedthrough the medium of an attached pin 19, or the equivalent thereof,that extends out through the outer face of the section carrying thelatch.

In operation, it is obvious that the setting 16 may be expeditiously andconveniently screwed to place at the channel portions of the sections ofthe device, since the recessed portion 17 of the setting will readilyslip by the free end of the latch 18, but when the setting is turned inthe opposite direction to remove it, the spring latch 18 will preventthe said setting from having any movement whatsoever until the saidspring latch 18 is pressed inward to carry its free end from out of therecess 17 of the setting and into the lower portion of the chamber 18 ain which the latch has movement.

In the construction shown in Figs. 3 and 4,

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instead of the meeting faces at the free ends of the sections beingsolid, as is illustrated at 14 in Fig. 1, they are provided withregistering openings 14, that extend through from the inside of thedevice to the outside so as to receive within the openings 14 when thedevice is closed, the lower end of the stone 15, permitting that portionof the stone to re- In both the forms of the device shown in Figs. 3 and4, projections 11 are employed, but the difference consists in theconstruction of the latch device. As shown in Fig. 3, the latch deviceconsists of a spring 20 that is located upon the inner face of one ofthe members of the device flush therewith, and this spring 20 controls alatch 21 that is adapted to enter the recess 17 of the setting 16, whichlatch is operated through the medium of a pin 22 that extends to theexterior of the section in which it is located, and has bearing on thespring 20.

In the form of the device shown in Fig. 4, the spring latch is in onepiece, comprising a body member 23, that is located upon the inner faceof one of the sections, fiush therewith, and a pin 24 that extendsupward from the free end of the body 23 and enters the recess 17 in thesetting 16, and the latch device in Fig. 4 is operated also from theexterior of the device by means of a pin 25 that extends from its outerface to an engagement with the body 23 of said locking device.

It is evident from the foregoing construction, that any character ofstone or stones suitably set may be placed in the improved mount andlocked in position and as readily removed, and that when the mount is inthe form of a finger ring, by separating the sections of the ring it maybe made to readily encircle the finger below the knuckle and thesections be then brought together and locked by the set stone employed,thereby preventing the possibility of the ring slipping over theknuckle, making a perfect fitting ring that will not revolve around thefinger.

Having thus described my invention, I claim as new and desire to secureby Letters Patent,

1. A mount for precious stones, consisting of separable members providedat one of their abutting portions with registering segmental channelshaving a threaded wall, a latch extending into one of said channels, andmeans for operating the latch from the exterior of the mount.

2. A mount for precious stones, consisting of separable memberspivotally connected at one of their ends and provided with exteriorlylocated registering channels at their free ends, and a latch devicecarried by one section, entering the channel produced therein.

3. A mount for precious stones, consisting of separable memberspivotally connected at one of their ends and provided at their free endswith registering segmental channels having corresp ondingly threadedwalls, means for holding the sections against lateral dis placement attheir CllZtIlIlBhi-JIIClS, and a latch carried by one of the sections.

4. The combination with a mount for precious stones, constructed insections pivotally connected at one end and channeled at their freeends, of a setting for a stone or like material, adapted to saidchannels, and a latch device carried by one of the sections forengagement with the said setting.

5. The combination with a mount for precious stones, consisting of twosections pivotally connected at one of their ends and having registeringchannels exteriorly lo cated at their free ends, of a setting for astone or like device adapted to the said channels, the setting beingprovided with an inclined recess at its inner edge portion and anexteriorly operated latch carried by a section of the mount and adaptedfor engagement with the said setting and to enter the recess therein.

6. The combination with a mount for precious stones, which mountconsists of two sections pivotally connected at one of their ends, beingprovided at their free ends with exteriorly located registeringsegmental recesses, which recesses have corresponding walls threaded, ofa setting interiorly threaded for engagement with the threaded walls ofthe said channels, the setting being fitted to said channels andprovided in its lower edge with a recess having one of its wallsinclined,

. and an exteriorly operated spring latch carried by one of: thesections of the mount and toenter the recess therein. 1 In testimonywhereof I have signed m name to this specification on the presence oftwo subscribing witnesses.

VJILLIAM RITCHIE ELLIOT. Vitnesses:

A. L. NORMAN, JOHN T. J. CLARKE.

' adapted for engagement with the setting and

